The London General Mourning Warehouse

Jay's is on the left of this view of Regent Street around 1850

The London General Mourning Warehouse was a mourning warehouse on Regent Street. It was established by William Chickall Jay in 1841 and so it was commonly known as Jay's. It sold all types of goods needed for funerals and the elaborate mourning of the Victorian era. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Gallery

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  Full page advertisement in The Illustrated London News , 8 September 1888
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  Around 1893
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  The 1922 plan for the reconstruction of Jay's by Sir Henry Tanner which was completed in 1925.

References

1. "Jay's Mourning Warehouse", Illustrated London, The London Printing and Engraving Co., pp. 70–71, 1893
2. D. Tulla Lightfoot (2019), The Culture and Art of Death in 19th Century America, McFarland, pp. 93–94, ISBN   978-1476635187
3. Mark Matlach (2019), W. C. Jay & Co. / Jay's Ltd.
4. Lou Taylor (2009), Mourning Dress: A Costume and Social History, Routledge, pp. 157–168, ISBN   978-1135228439
5. Claire Wood (2015), "Dickens and the Business of Death", Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Cambridge University Press: 30–33, ISBN   9781107098633, ISSN   1747-3136

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